Laura Wilson is a photographer whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The
New Yorker, Vanity Fair, GQ Magazine, English Vogue, London’s
Sunday Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, and Wallpaper.
Laura Wilson is married and lives in Dallas, Texas. She and her husband Robert are the
parents of three sons, Andrew, Owen and Luke Wilson.

Books

That Day: Pictures in the American West

Yale University Press, 2015

That Day offers Wilson's vision of her adopted home region across the span of her career from the 1970's
to the present. Text from Wilson's journals accompanies photographs of the people who have shaped our
nation's most dynamic region.

Avedon at Work

Wilson had the distinction of documenting one of the great photographers of the twentieth century. She
was Richard Avedon’s assistant for six years and her photographs and journal entries show Avedon’s
creative process and working methods as he completed, In the American West.

Hutterites of Montana

Yale University Press, 2000

The Hutterites live in isolated communal groups that shun the modern world. Historian David McCullough
wrote “A book such as this – a book so clearly and genuinely extraordinary comes along rarely and only
as a result of exceptional skill and dedication.”

Watt Matthews of Lambshead

Texas State Historical Association, 1989

This is a photographic essay about one of the last great Texas cattlemen. The New York Times wrote that
the book has become “a classic of Texas history.”

Grit & Glory

Bright Sky Press, September 2003

This book documents the energy and thrill of six-man football and the visceral rough-edged culture in
which it is played in small Texas towns. These photographs were shown in a solo exhibition at the
Meadows Museum in Dallas, Texas in January 2011.

Current Projects

Wilson is currently working on two projects. Writers will become a book and exhibition for the Ransom
Center at the University of Texas. It documents 35 distinguished writers who will have a lasting
literary legacy. Making Movies documents directors, cinematographers, actors, and all those people
who contribute to the magic of movie making.

Awards

Elected to the Philosophical Society of Texas 2013

Dallas Historical Society Award for the Creative Arts, 2005

Royal Photographic Society of England Book of the Year, Avedon at Work, 2004

Golden Light Book of the Year Award,
Hutterites of Montana, 2001

Texas Institute of Letters Carr P. Collins Award for Book of the Year, Avedon at Work, 2001